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It's tempting to say, and probably true, that no rule made by Paris goes unbent in the city of Marseille. The capital of Provence has a well-deserved reputation as a rough and unruly place ...

Why was the port city spared France's immigrant youth uprisings of 2005? "If France," says scholar Susanne Stemmler, "is a very racist country, Marseille is its liberated zone." Kate Brooks "We ...

What happens when a holiday inspires a permanent move? As Alex Holder discovers, the joy lies not in where you move to, but who you become when you get there ...